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FRESH FIVE - five things to make time for this week

20/11/08 My Best Friend’s Girl, cinemas from Friday Romantic comedy meets crude dude humour in this movie starring darlings of Hollywood fluff and farce, Kate Hudson, Jason Biggs and Dane Cook. Hudson plays Alexis, feisty ex-girlfriend of Dustin (Biggs), who...

REVIEW: Kanye West at Glasgow's SECC

Star rating *** It was hard to tell whether Mr West was being tongue-in-cheek when he apologised to fans for ruining all their future gig-going by "jading your minds with greatness", but it's clear that he has put his heart...

Local Hero: Port Glasgow girl packs a punch in boxing ring

RICHARD WINTON What appears to be a fire exit lies ajar, light spilling into the Port Glasgow gloom. Inside, the noise of squeaking soles and coarse commands confirms the location of the Port Glasgow Victoria Amateur Boxing Club in the...

Line-up announced for Edinburgh's Hogmanay party

Dance act Groove Armada will bring in the new year as headliners of Edinburgh's massive Hogmanay street party, under a "canopy of lasers". The duo are promising a spectacular mix of music, light and fireworks as more than 100,000 revellers...

Fresh Five - five things to find time for this week

Max Payne, in cinemas from Friday 14 November We’re in familiar phantasy territory here as Mark Wahlberg, the good-guy cop whose wife and child are brutally murdered for no apparent earthly reason, is drawn into a Manichean struggle of almighty...

WIN! The chance to fly to Italy and design your team's strip

REGULAR readers of fresh will know that we are always on the look-out for great competitions that challenge our readers to come up with inspiring ideas – and this one really fits the bill. fresh and The Co-operative Insurance have...

Fame Game: Alan Carr

I get criticised for being camp. But television is camp. Someone pretending you’re in their living room, saying ‘hello, welcome to my show’ Alan Carr’s advice to any underwhelming young stand-ups: steal the reviews of a more popular act. The...

GLASVEGAS IN THE USA - Exclusive tour diary!

DAY ONE GLASGOW – NEWARK Caroline: Having packed my coffin-sized suitcase and stumbled down three flights of stairs at 6am, we got in the splitter van, mumbled the usual courtesies and abuse at each other and headed to Glasgow airport,...

She's magic

KATIE McGRATH is tired, with justification. “We’re on night shoots at the minute,” she tells me in a southern Irish lilt far removed from the regal tones we hear in Merlin, the new retelling of the youthful exploits of the...

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